New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin reunites with former RIT players

11:53 AM,
Mar. 1, 2013

New York Giants coach and Waterloo native is flanked by six of his former RIT players. Coughlin's first head coaching job began at RIT in 1970. From left are: Mark McCabe, Mike Guinan, Bill Oremus, Coughlin, Rick Knaack, Leo Buda and Tom Honan

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Michael Eisen
| Senior writer/editor Giants.com

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. A group of football players gathered this week in the Timex Performance Center and talked about their coach, Tom Coughlin. They used words like "intense, tough" and "driven" to describe the man that has had such a profound influence on their lives. No surprise there. The hyper-competitive Coughlin has been called all that and much more during his long career as a successful coach.

But these descriptions came not from the Giants, the team Coughlin has coached since 2004 and led to a pair of Super Bowl victories. Instead, they were uttered by players from his first head ...